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A Study On the Personality Characteristics of Iranian AddictsThe University of Tehran School of Medicine The present study was undertaken to investigate the personality characteristics of addicts in Iran and to investigate the applicability of the Persian version of the Manson Evaluation Scale. A sample of 107 hospitalized male addicts was compared with a group of 90 non- addicts, using the scale. All MES scales attained statistically significant t-values at or better than 1 per cent levels of confidence. The study supports findings in western societies except that the present sample shows more psychoneurotic traits than psychopathic trends.
International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 26, No. 2,
142-144 (1980) |
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